Well, that's essentially what vaccines do, anyway, except that they train the immune system without requiring you to go through the full disease. As a side note, I developed myocarditis after a COVID vaccine which damaged heart tissue and caused an AV block.
I think he would have. And might have died of COVID on top of it.
That's my assumption as well, and exactly why I'm curious. That is something I'd assume is a lot easier to believe when it's just the theory. But if I developed a heartblock, I might not be able to rest on that reality. I'm kinda wondering how much confidence they place in that as the inevitability.
I asked because I was thinking about that Jimmy Carr joke, "Do you think we overreacted to covid?" the crowd cheers. "Yeah all the survivors usually think so!". And wondering how true it is, whit some perspective I don't have :)
Good. I wish I did.
That's not something I'll even know. Also, the question assumes that I have had an organic infection at some point, which, to the best of my knowledge, I did not. I am not grateful to have a pacemaker at 29.
We know it. That’s the best part. We know about the nervous system’s disruption in the presence of bacterial infections, viruses, any infection that the body wants to alter its blood chemistry to slow down, any infection that brings its own biolfilms and messes with your cellular electricities, any infection that throws off viral or bacterial waste for your heart valves to slog through…
We know these things, in isolation.
We just don’t teach them as they (almost certainly) apply here.
Because you need a peer-reviewed study that, for example, specifically proves COVID infection is linked to viral shedding which is linked to chest pain / heart, stamina problems.
You can’t just assume that’s what’s happening because that’s what always happens.
Looks where that’s getting us, though. Data says we’re all being thrashed by cancers, and endocrine instability.
Vaccines are a method of training your immune system…
I remember 30 years ago kids used to be put together if one had chicken pox so the others could catch it to get it out of the way. Covid parties, etc.
This is now considered a bad move.
... for now.
The research from Covid is just finding so much evidence for tissue resident viral infection and prior work on ME/CFS autopsies showed other viruses doing similar in the brain. Catching anything is bad for our health.
Many people think that viruses are as benign as common flu (influenza), or common cold (rhinoviruses), because that what they experienced themselves and parents and schools don't do a good job of explaining just how bad some diseases are. (To "protect" the children, perhaps?)
But most viruses are not as "polite" as the flu or a cold. All herpesviruses (chickenpox, classic herpesviruses type 1 and 2, papilomavirus, Epstein-Barr, CMV) stay with you forever. So does HIV, hepatitis C (until recently introduced efective treatment), sometimes hepatitis B, some types (the bad types) of papillomaviruses, etc. There are so many of them.
And there are permanet bacterial infections and parasites too: Mycobacterum leprae (rare now), and M. tubeculosis (where I live most people are infected, but don't manifest the disease and are not contagious), Helicobacter pylori (something like 2/3 of all people in the world are infected), malaria (curable, but many people don't know they have it), Toxoplasma (infects all warm blooded animals including birds, and many people have it - in their brain - and it's permanent).
There are some viruses (like HIV) that insert themselves into our cell's DNA, and if they infect our reproductive cells, we pass them on to our children just like any other gene. It happened a lot in our evolution. ~10% of our ordinary human genome is made of viruses. Ancient viruses, no longer functional, but some of their genes we repurposed them and made them work for us instead. If you count transposons (not technically viruses, but they can/could move in and out of DNA, switch places, just like text cut-and-paste, taking with them nearby genes), then it's more like 50% of our DNA.
Had influenza in 2018, as a 46-year-old and it was not particularly benign.
3 days straight of 103 degree fever and think I had mild long-covid-ish symptoms for the next year or so.
Certain at risk individuals, or ones that work with them are recommended to also get a prick every year around autumn ideally.
If you're not in that last category the insurance will only cover your initial innoculation.
I feel like doctors and physiology researchers have known this for some time.
But you're right, a baby getting Hepatitis B versus the HepB vaccine. For the 0.15% of babies with perinatal HepB (2022 CDC cohort[1]) it's easy to say give them the vaccine after infection.
What about the other 90% of babies without HepB getting the vaccine (yes, they do)? Are our hospitals and elementary schools some version of Epstein Island? Are the hospitals competent enough to give the vaccines too incompetent to screen? What are population-level downsides to giving vaccines at such young ages before there is a reasonable risk of infection? I don't know, but I believe my preferred propaganda networks refuse to tell me, which makes the balancing decision harder for me in such cases than it is for you in your preferred case.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis-surveillance-2023/perinatal-he...
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266652472...